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More Than 850 Medicines in Development For Diseases that Disproportionately Strike Women

Washington, D.C. (May 12, 2011) — Medical researchers are making unprecedented progress into understanding why women suffer disproportionately from a number of diseases. Those insights are providing information to help develop medicines to attack diseases such as osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, depression, rheumatoid arthritis and age-related macular degeneration, all of which affect more women than men.

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America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are developing 851 medicines for diseases that disproportionately affect American women. The medicines in the pipeline for women (either in clinical trials or awaiting review by the Food and Drug Administration) include:

Arthritis/Musculoskeletal Disorders

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Medicines in Development

Each patient battling with a disease or managing a condition lives in the hope that tomorrow will bring a new medicine that delivers better health. America’s biopharmaceutical research companies share the same goal of developing new medicines that can prevent diseases, improve patients’ health, and save lives. Beyond each individual patient, new drugs can help society overall by reducing sick days and helping cut the cost of healthcare.